Weather-strip.



G. R. INGHAM.

WEATHER STRIP.

APPLICATION FILED PEB.24, 1910.

ATTORNEYS Patented June 7, 1910.

Ill/VE/VTOR Z a 2195M BY CHARLES R. INGHAM, OF MAHWAH, NEW J EBSEY,ASSIG-NOR TO METAL PLATED CAB &

LUMBER COMPANY, OF MAHWAH, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

WEATHERSTRIP- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 24, 1910. Serial No. 545,562.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CnAnmcs R. INoHAM, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Mahwah, inlhe county of Bergen and State of NewJersey, have made and invented certain new and useful Improvements inlVeather-Strips, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in weather stri s forwindowisashes, such as are made who ly of metal, and more particularlyto animprovement upon the strip shown in Letters Patent granted to J. E.Scott, July 21, 1903, and numbered 734,436, all the rights to and underwhichpatent are now owned and controlled by the assi cc of my presentinvention, the Metal Plated Car & Lumber Company.

In the manufacture of many thousands of weather strips constructed andapplied as described in the above Letters Patent, 1 have learned that itis open to several objections, to wit, the .upper end of the strip beingopen, dust, dirt, cmders, or other foreign material finds its way intothe upper open end of the strip and lodges between the spring metalslide strips and the side walls, thereby destroying to a large extentthe resiliency of the wings or side springs, in man instances causingthe sash to bind in the rame, and in some instances causing thedestruction of the wings. Furthermore, I have found in the use of thesestrips that the raw or unprotected upper edges of the strip will, attimes, in the upward movement of the sash catch in the wooden frame; andthereb be bent distorted, or injured, and at other times whollydestroyed.

The object of my invention is to avoid these diflieulties and objectionsby closing the upper ends of thestrips against the ingress of dirt orforeign material, and at the same time to provide a strip with a roundedor curved upper end, whereby to insure the same against catching intothe woodwork of the frame in which the sash slides, and with these andother ends in view, the invention consists in certain novel features ofconstruction and. combinations of parts as will be hereinafter fullydescribed and pointed out in the claims. y

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View of a b ank from which Iform my improved weather stri Fig. 2 is spective view of the lank partlyFig. 3 is a view of the upper portion of the strip having the extremeupper ends bent or folded over in accordance with my present invention.Fig. 4 shows the strip applied to a portion of a window sash. Fig. 5 1sa sectional view taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a view of amodified form of the upper end of the strip, showing the extension onthe wing folded in betweenthe wing and side wall of the strip. 7

Referring to the drawings, 10 represents the blank from which Iconstruct my improved strip, made of any desired metal, preferably thinsheet spring brass, the blank having rounded lower corners 11-11, andthe two upwardly projecting extensions l212 on its upper corners, theseextensions 12-12 being of such height as to afford suificient metal tobend them over and upon the inner sides of the wings or spring-slidesPatented June a, rare.

as hereinafter described, the width of said extensions 12 bein the sameas that of said win s. This blan is then formed, shaped or folded asillustrated in Fig. 2, that is provided with the rear plate 13, sideplates 14, and the wings or spring slide plates 15. When folded intothis sha e, it Wlll be noticed that the lower end 0 the strip willbeopened, that is, an 0 en space wil be left between the lower en of thesprings 15 and side plates 14 to afford an escape for any dust or dirtwhich might find its way in between said wings and plates. At the upperend of the strip, however, the projectionslQ form an extension of thewings 15, which which the weather strip is attached, and are therebyhidden from v1ew, the upper end of the strip presenting a smooth androunded surface to the frame 18, with no'danger of the strip digging orcatching therein.

- As will be noticed in Fig. 6, instead of I bending the extensions 12over and upon the inner sides or surfaces of the walls 14, saidextensions 12 may be bent or turned inwardly against the outer side'orsurface of said Walls; but as such does not form such a tight lock orseal against the ingress of dirt, I refer to bend and fold theprojecting en s as first above mentioned.

As well understood, the strip may bein other wa s modified,'and if so,the folded upper en s may be accordingly modified, the

gist of my present invention lying in the fact that the strip'isprovided with a side wall, and a spring wing, the metal of the stripbeing bent from one member over on to the other in order to close thetop of the strip, whereby to prevent the ingress of dirt or foreignmatter, and also to protect the raw edge of themetal from catching intothe.

window frame.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim is- 1. A weather stripcomprising a side wall and" a spring win; substantially parallelthereto, the metal at the upper end of the strip being folded over,whereby to close the space between said wing and wall.

2. A weather strip made of sheet metal andvcomprising a side wall and asprin wing substant1al1 parallel thereto, sai

Wing being provi ed with an extended end bent over against the metal ofthe wall,

whereby. to c ose the space between said wing and Wall.

3. A weather strip comprising sidewalls having spring wings formedintegraltherewith, the metal of which said win s are A. V. WALSH, W. .R.Enson.

